362 KANE’S LIST AND MACDONALD’S HISTORY OF DRESS. 
2249 ), ( Sir ) Henry J. Alderson (No. 2329 ), Frederick T. Whinyates 
(No. 2264) and Francis A. Whinyates (No. 2417); to the last named 
the Royal Artillery owes a debt of gratitude for the care and trouble 
with which he has edited and published in the Royal Artillery Institution 
“ Proceedings ” the letters of Swabey, Downman, and Dynely respect¬ 
ively and for the patience with which he has worked out the stories of 
Norman Ramsay at Fuentes d’Onoro and the real events of the siege 
of Sebastopol. 
Some day, no doubt, an accurate account of the doings of the Royal 
Artillery in the Crimea will be published, meanwhile what is written 
above will serve to remind the present generation of those who wore 
the uniform of Plate XX. ; this period cannot be passed by without 
mention of the fact that at the beginning of the campaign the Deputy- 
Adjutant-General, Royal Artillery was (Sir) Hew D. Ross (No. 890) 
who had commanded “A” Troop, Royal Horse Artillery, through the 
Peninsula and at Waterloo ; as soon as the Crimean War began he was 
made Lieutenant-General and acting Master-General of the Ordnance 
and held this office until the amalgamation of the War and Ordnance 
Departments when he became Adjutant-General of the Royal Artillery 
at the Horse Guards ; he was created a Field-Marshal and died in 1868 
in the 90th year of his age and 74th year of his service ; there is a fine 
life-size portrait of him in Field-Marshal’s uniform in the Royal Artillery 
Mess, Woolwich. 
The remaining Plates of the History cover a period down to 1897 in 
which hardly a single year has passed that has not seen the Royal Artill¬ 
ery on active service in the field ; so many of those who took a distin¬ 
guished part in these campaigns and expeditions are still serving that 
it is impossible to write of individuals. It was in this period that the 
amalgamation of the three Corps of Indian Artillery with the Royal 
Regiment of Artillery took place with the result that thenceforward 
the Royal Artillery has taken part in all the campaigns fought under 
the Government of India including those in China, Abyssinia and 
Perak. The outbreak of the Indan Mutiny in April 1857 caused a com¬ 
pany of Royal Artillery from Ceylon to be sent to India and batteries 
» on the way to a campaign in China to be also diverted to India so that 
after a lapse of just 100 years since Chalmers and his companies landed 
in India the Royal Artillery again began to serve in the country and 
in the Jubilee year, 1897, nearly one-half of all the officers of the Royal 
Artillery were serving in India. 
Besides constant active service in India throughout the period of these 
last plates, the Royal Artillery has also fought in Ashanti, Zululand, 
Natal, Transvaal, Soudan, Egypt, China, New Zealand and Canada, 
and though many officers who distinguished themselves in these cam¬ 
paigns are dead, it must remain for a future historian to reca 1 ! their deeds 
together with those of that goodly band who happily survive to do the 
Royal Artillery further credit “ quo fas et gloria ducunt.” 
